As an antidote to despair, we pick up plastics from Oregon beaches and make educational art! Community members of all ages are working together to gather the beach plastics and construct giant sculptures of the marine animals most affected by the plastic pollution. Since the inception of the project, 1000s of pounds of plastic pollution have been processed into art supplies by Washed Ashore.
Artist/Educator Angela Haseltine Pozzi orchestrates the construction of towering, aesthetically striking sculptures of marine life that form a traveling exhibit of art and environmental education. An interdisciplinary environmental arts curriculum and a feature-length documentary accompany this work.
The exhibit also features a Styrofoam coral reef, a large walk-through plastic gyre (an enormous mobile which mimics the five worldwide gyres where plastic collects in the world's ocean) and an oil spill replica.
